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thank you !
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you need to use HLB system to calculate the percentages of your emulsifiers (glyceryl stearate and ceteareth-20). Link below will show you how to do that.
http://swiftcraftymonkey.blogspot.com/search?q=hlb
Cetyl alcohol and mineral oil are thickener and conditioning agents so you have to play with the numbers to get the feel that you want for your cream.
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thank you Perry !
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Thank you @DRBOB@VERDIENT.BIZ !
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thank you @Bill_Toge and @johnb for your inputs !
so is the purpose of having cetylstearyl alcohol to thicken/stabilize the emulsion like cetyl alcohol in cream?
and is it better to use Polawax with a low HLB emulsifier otherwise we need to use alot of it in order to make a decent stable emulsion?
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@Bill_Toge thank you !
I always have difficulty understand this, I thought behentrimonium methosulphate is surface active agent or surfactant which doesn’t mean that its an emulsifer. I was told that one sufactant can’t make a stable emulsion, there must be combination of low, high HLB surfactants and emulsion stablizers. In the case of BTMS, I can see behentrimonium by itself as the solublizer but not an emulsifier.
I am missing something, could someone please help?
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Hi all,
just curious, should C25 & GMS be 5.25% instead 1.4% because oil phase is 21%?
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@johnb I have this product in hand and its in english so thats the LOI on the can.
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I tried 2:1 ratio of tween 80:dimethicone- I premixed 1% of dimethicone in 2% of tween 80 at 45C and then added into water but didnt work- Maybe I am better off going with water soluble silicone. thank you all !
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DrBOB- thank you ! what ration of P_80 that you are suggesting?